Researchers are using GPS-wearing opossums to track down the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

A look at the natural feeding behavior of a king cobra, including its ability to prey on other snakes such as pythons, within a wildlife context.

Venomous and nonvenomous snakes have a role to play in the ecosystem, but it's important to recognize them when you encounter ...

Most people think that snake encounters happen at random, but wildlife experts say that some start with normal things in the ...

This North Carolina resident found something he wasn’t expecting in his backyard! As a relative newcomer to the area, Scott ...

This North Carolina resident found something he wasn’t expecting in his backyard! As a relative newcomer to the area, Scott ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who stole a purse from then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant ...

Most headlines about invasive species focus on snakes. Burmese pythons in Florida, brown tree snakes in Guam, and Boa ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...

A surprising discovery in python biology could change how we approach weight loss and it might work very differently from existing drugs. Scientists have discovered a compound in python blood that may ...

If you were a starving snake in a barren landscape, your most nutritious available lunch may just be another snake. While cannibalism is an absolute taboo to us humans, it’s remarkably widespread in ...

You might think that human eating patterns have little in common with giant snakes that kill their prey by slowly suffocating it, swallowing it whole and then not eating again for another three weeks ...